(PAGE TWO "-' . SATURD1AY. FERUTARY 28. 1949 - u THE MTCIWle.tT ilITV - 1 i1 .L 1 11'1r 117.1A'1'i l\ L7L-liL 1 A7 L11 V L '>/!11 i' i%1714V Ci.iV i 16Q 1:1Y0 ' I Post-Hollywood Trial ROBERT KENNY, lawyer for the 10 Holly-i wood writers sounded a warning here at Michigan last week which has already be- come fulfilled in the news. He stated that unless we become aware of the violation of our rights involved in the contempt ,irials, the day would soon come when the Council could call in the City Hall elevator boy and question him on his views. What Kenny maintained is that the prec- edent being set will permit any governing body in the nation to investigate our private lives for the sake, not of legislation-since the House could have taken no action in this case, and intended to take no action, even had the writers loudly aclaimed their Communist party affiliations, but for their own "information." 11 Already Kenny's prediction has born fruit. The State of California has instituted the Tennyson Committee which proposes to fur- ther the reconstruction of the Hollywood mind begun by J. Parnell Thomas. What it amounts to is that one state will be able to control the thinking of the entire movie public if it so desires. Due to the accidental location of Los Angeles in California, we can expect to have our morals ruled, our ideol- ogies directed, and perhaps, our personal lives supervised, by the mighty legislature of California. The leaders in the writing and dramatic Editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of The Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. NIGHT EDITOR: BEN ZWERLING fields are organizing into a Committee to defend their civil liberties. We dare sug- gest that the intellectuals of the thought field of college life do the same. All the group is insisting is that before charges are made, the Un-American Activities Committee be made to point to what it considers definitely subversive. To the amazement of movie-goers it should be noted that one film HAS been pointed cut by the Committee-but its "subversiveness" skipped the attention of this writer. It is "Body and Soul." The sub- versiveness probably refers either to the horribly un-American thought that a Negro fighter might get a wrong deal from a fight promoter (Strangely, promoters have been known to handle other races this way) or to the suggestion made by one character (John Garfield plays aJewish fighter) that Gar- field must present a good front because the rest of the country judges entire races by the actions of the few in the limelight. This racial point is ridiculous of course. The writers of the play could not have known that one group, our Southern Senators, wouldn't think of judging the colored race by the actions of Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, or Joe LouIs in the national spotlight. There may be a great deal of thought in the comment made by the wife of one of the defendants in the trial. At a meeting with lawyers to decide procedures to be followed, she said, (as quoted by columnist Leonard Lyon) "And if we lose the case, I suggest we buy a boat, name it the Mayflower, and sail it back to England." -Don McNeil. Magazine Distortion A LARGE NATIONAL magazine has re- cently instituted a series of articles on Republican presidential aspirants. If the first article in the series, one on Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, can be considered representative of the forthcoming articles, this magazine can be held responsible for a grave miscarriage of its duty to the Ameri- can reading public. While the magazine cautions that each article is a "case" for the specific candidate, the editors have certainly allowed their writers the most favorable conditions pos- sible for the prosecution of their respective cases. The editors, by not providing for a repudiation of these partisan viewpoints, or at least requiring that their writers present fair and unbiased studies of their subjects, have reduced this series to a meaningless set of panegyrics. Not only, however, has the magazine failed Evasion Policy THE MEHARY MEDICAL COLLEGE, in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the only schools in the south where Negroes can receive professional training in medicine and dentistry is going to close down. Already financially in the red, the school plans only one more year of service. Negro stdents who are half-way through their schooling will be forced to either give up ideas of protslonal careers, or go back to their home states and demand admittance to state schools. Southerners have their own ideas of what to do when a Negro demands the right to the same educational opportunities accord- ed the white population. They have already tried one course of action in the Texas and Oklahoma cases, which were problems of a single student. But closing down the Mehary school will mean that 65 per cent of its present en- rollment would be returning to home states at the same time and probably demanding admittance to "white" state schools. So at a recent conference of southern governors, a .compact for an Interstate Board of Control for southern regional schools to serve both Negroes and whites was drawn up. The proposal has been sent to Congress with a request for immediate Congressional sanction. This isn't an answer to the question of equal rights; it is just a carryover of seg- regation policy in a new form. But the southern statesmen are smart. They see the impending problem, and have come up with a bill which doesn't solve the issue, but circles it. -Roma Lipsky. MATTER OF FACT: A Little Episode By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP THE GRIM developments in Czechoslo- vakia were plainly foreshadowed, as long ago as last October, by a tense little episode between President Benes and the Communist stooge in the Czech Socialist party, Dr. Fierlinger. The slippery Fierlinger had just made his major effort to deliver the Czech so- cialists, bound hand and foot, into Com- munist keeping. He then tried to see Benes. He was refused admittance, but brushed past the nervous secretaries and guards into the presence of the ailing old man. A violent scene ensued. Benes told Fierlinger, in plain terms, that to provide the critical perspective neces- sary for the formulation of any opinion, but it is also guilty of allowing at least the in- itial writer to espouse a series of dubious and misleading statements. Thus the reader, who accepts this article as what it pre- sumes to be-an attempt "to assist (its) readers in arriving at carefully considered judgments"-not only will be hampered by the absence of divergent interpretations of the candidate's character, but may be de- ceived by the extravagant eulogy. For example, mention is made of the fact that Robert Taft at one time advo- cated American membership in the League of Nations, and has sponsored bills favor- ing feteral aid in education, health and housing. The author then goes on to call Taft both an internatioanalist and a "true American liberal." What if this author had known that someone would, next week, point out to the same readers some other facts? That it was this same liberal internationalist who voted against Lend Lease, the revision of the Neutrality Act, and the destroyer transfer; who sought to block American participation in the world bank and the international stabilization fund; who ledithe opposition to Bretton Woods, made his maiden speech in the Senate against T.V.A. and even now seems bent on rendering ineffective the Marshall Plan. Then perhaps this author would have been a bit more conservative with his adjectives. Again, the author raises Taft above the common thinker by virtue of his mental ca- pacity and the fact that while "the thought of the average man is choked by prejudices, ambitions, needs . . . once Bob Taft tackles a problem, no emotion of any kind colors his mind." Aside from the obvious fact that it is impossible for any human mind to be absolutely void of all prejudice, is there not something to be said for the claim that while Taft's mental processes may not be colored either by the various hues of dog- matic intractibility or radicalism, they ma just as certainly be stained by the dull grey of conservatism? To be sure, a man given free reign to write a "case" for his favorite candidats would naturally present him in as favor- able a light as possible. But even a light colored by a filter and directed by a skill- ful operator, penetrates to the corners. --Dave Thomas. Lo,41&eief fUMAN ENLDEAVOR is founded on two contradictory beliefs. No. 1: We believe that one event infall- ibly will cause another event. The logical extension of this belief is a complete deter- minism. But, if we believe this way, why do we continually give purpose to our ac- tions? Belief No. 2 gives the answer: It is be- cause we also believe that there is a higher end attainable. Reconcile these two outlooks as you will, they remain fundamen- tal. They must go together. Belief No. 2 is the individual's salvation from the spiritual death imminent in belief No. 1. What does it matter that the world is determined? Freedom lies in sticking to your goal. But it is a phony salvation unless the group the individual is part of possesses belief in a goal. Group in this sense has long since come to mean the world. Here lies the tragedy. The bulk of the in- I'D RATHER BE RIGHT: Palestine Reversal By SAMUEL GRAFTON THERE IS AN unbecoming cleverness in the American position on Palestine. How many midnights did the lamps burn, in how many officials' studies, to produce the dis- mal rationalization that the United Nations has the right to keep the peace in Palestine, but not the right to enforce partition? It is not that the United States is against parti- tion; heavens, no; it is just that it con- siders the world's hands to be tied by the United Nations Charter. Oh, that Charter! Only, one has the feeling that the Admin- istration has reached out its hands to be tied. For who asked the Administration to do this lawyer's job for the other side? Why didn't it let some Arab legalist think up this point, if it is a point? The clear implica- tion is that the Administration has reversed itself on partition. For it is a reversal to slip suddenly from the role of advocate into the role of prim, cool, constitutional scholar, unemotionally assaying a set of legalisms. The change in tone is a change in policy. As for the legal point itself, that the Security Council has the right to keep the peace in Palestine, but not to enforce par- tition, that is not law, either. It is only a set of words spoken by the American dele- gate; it is only an interpretation of the Charter. But charters and constitutions are subject to interpretations of many sorts;' the history of our own country is a history of conflicting interpretations of the Con- stitution, many of them so deeply at vari- ance that it has sometimes been hard to believe they stemmed from the same doc- ument. As for the American position that the Se- curity Council would be doing something kind of dirty and illegal if it tried to enforce a "political settlement" instead of merely enforcing the peace, one searches for kind words in which to break the news to the Administration that there aren't any settle- ments except political ones. Where does the Administration hope to keep the peace after it has enforced it, in a bottle, drenched in formaldehyde? So long as men must live in Palestine, and work, and trade the fruits of their work, they will need rules, and the rules must be the product of a political settlement. Or is Palestine to becoie the world's first anarchist state, a state without a government, when the British pull out in May? One hopes that maybe the Adminis- tration doesn't mean it, that maybe it feel partition will come along naturally, as the best solution, once an international police force arrives on the scene, even if only to "keep peace." Perhaps the Administration hopes to get at partition indirectly in this way, without complicating our relations with the Arabs. But there is a familiar note in the new stand we have taken, which makes hope ill. It is the note of weakness, of weakness put on like a cloak, assumed like a mask; weak- ness eagerly sought and happily found. We'd like to do more, but we can't; it isn't legal-isn't that the way the West talked when Ethiopia was in trouble, and Spain, and during Munich? Have we not seen hands wrung in the same manner be- fore? And now, after a world war, are we again to see an assumed legalism stand in the way of correcting a moral outrage and clearing up a focus for conflict? Are the strong playing weak again, while wrong triumphs? Isn't this where we came in? (Copyright, 1948, New York Post Corporation) Dated By.Laws IT'S ABOUT TIME that someone seized a large blue pencil and started to work on the University's antiquated and incon- sistent by-laws. I say antiquated because they were out of date before the University was conceived, and I say inconsistent because in substance they are diametrically opposed to the demo- cratic principles which the University claims to hold. I quote from a recent speech of Provost James P. Adams, entitled, oddly enough, "Turn on the Light": "Although we may disagree with the views held by any per- son or party, we must necessarily, in line with our principles of free speech, let that man be heard." And yet, the University sees fit to bar all speeches in support of "any political party or faction." Is the University of Mich- igan to remain a first aid station for pro- longed infantilism, or is it going to realize that by repealing these inconceived by- laws it will take a step forward in advanc- ing the political consciousness that is so badly needed in this country? To the powers that be, I say . . . . "Let's Turn on That Light." -Dick Arnesen. Publication in The Daily Official Bulletin is constructive notice to all members of the University. Notices for the Bulletin should be sent in typewritten form to the office of the Assistant to the President, Room 1021 Angeli Hall, by 3:00 p.m. on the day preceding publication (11:00 a.m. Sat- urdays). Notices SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1948 VOL. LVIII, No. 102 Campus Parking Areas: Following is a list of RE- STRICTED campus parking areas which are to be used ONLY by those persons who have been is- used, and who properly display, campus PARKING permits. It is to be noted that a student driving permit is not a parking permit. Persons using restricted parking areas illegally are liable for fines. RESTRICTED AREAS 1. Thayer S. at Hill Audito- rium 2. Catherine St. West of Univ. Hospital 3. S. W. Corner of East Wash- ington and Ingalls 4.gLaw School at Monroe and Tappan 5. East Medical Building Lot 6. Between Chemistry and Nat- ural Science Buildings 7. Behind University Hall 8. West Engineering Lot 9. West Engineering Annex Lot 10. Storehouse Area on Forest Ave. 11. Convalescent Hospital Area 12. Rear of Dental and Health Service Buildings 13. Lot between wings of Univ. Museum 14. Lane Hall Area 15. Clements Library 16. Harris Hall 17. Public Health Area 18. Lot north of Hill Aud. on Thayer St. 19. Grassy areas or lawn exten- sions The campus parking areas list- ed below are UNRESTRICTED and may be used by student driv- ers without securing parking per- mits. In using these areas how- ever, it should be pointed out that improper parking which hinders other cars in entering or leaving the area is considered illegal park- ing and will result in a fine. Cars are not to be center parked in ANY parking area for this usually results in the blocking of en- trances or exitsbcausing driving hazards. Persons who do park their cars in the center of lots will be fined for illegal parking. UNRESTRICTED AREAS 1. East of Univ. Hospital 2. S.E. Corner of Thayer and E. Washington Sts. 3. Church St. East Engineering lot 4. East Hall on Church St. 5. Catherine St. North of Vaughn Residence Hall 6. West Quad. Area at Thomp- son and Jefferson Sts. 7. Michigan Union Area 8. College St. between East Med. and East Hall 9. General Service Building Area 10. Lot behind Univ. Museum adjacent to Forest Ave. 11. Business Administration building area Handbills, signs and printed matter not inconsistent with good taste may be posted on the bulletin boards in campus buildings, but not elsewhere. The Committee on Student Af- fairs will hold its next meeting on Tues., March 2, 3 p.m. Petitions to be presented for consideration at this meeting must besubmitted to the Office of Student Affairs, Rm. 2, University Hall, not later than 12 noon on Mon., March 1. Application blanks for the gen- eral undergraduate scholarships for the school year 1948-49 are now available in Rm. 206, Univer- sity Hall. All applications must be returned to this office by March 31. Summer Employment in For- estry: All students in the School of Forestry and Conservation who desire summer employment in the western regions of the U. S. For- est Service must submit applica- tions immediately. Forms are available in Rm. 2048. Natural" Science Bldg. Emergency ("Victory") Gardens: Members of the faculty and other employees of the University who desire space for a vegetable garden at the, Botanical Garden this spring should send a written re- quest to Mr. O. E. Roszel, Store- house Section of the Plant Depart- ment. Requests must be made by the end of March, and must be ac- companied by one dollar as a con- tribution toward the expense of plowing the land. When the gar- den plots are ready for use, it will be announced in this bulletin and the gardeners may learn their plot numbers by phoning Mr. Ros- zel. Each plot will be assigned with the understanding that it will be used to full capacity for raising vegetables, will be kept free from weeds, and that waste matter will be cleared away in the fall. Water may oe used on the gar- dens if carried from the faucp s in cans or pails, but the use of hose is prohibited. No tools will be fur- nished by the University. Particular care must be taken that no property of the Botanical Garden be molested. Dogs are not allowed in the garden. Lectures Department of Naval Architec- ture and Marine Engineering: Mr. W. W. Payne from U. S. Public Health Service will speak on Prin- ciples of Vessel Sanitation, Mon., March 1, 4:15 p.m., Rm. 445, W. Engineering' Bldg. All Engineering students are invited. Academic Notices Spanish 222 from now on will meet in Rm. 2019, Angell Hall on Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m. Concerts The University Musical Society will present Georges Enesco, Rou- i_,anian violinist, assisted by San- ford Schlussel at the piano, in the ninth concert in the Choral Union Series, Tues., March 2, 8:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Program: Sonata in A major, Vivaldi; Sonata in G minor, Tartini; Sonata in A minor, Enesco; Bach's Preludium e' fuga in G minor; Ravel's Kaddisch and Perpetuum Mobile; and the Sara- sate Zigeunerweisen. A limited number of tickets are available at the offices of the Uni- versity Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. Faculty Recital: Charles Vogan, Instructor in organ in the School of Music, will present the second in a series of Sunday afternoon programs at 4:15 February 29, Hill Auditorium. His recital, consist- ing of organ music of the Nine- teenth Century, will be open to the general public. Events Today Scimitar Club is being re-acti- vated. All ex-members are re- quested to contact Pete Wong, Secretary, 505 Eberwhite, phone 2-3351, on or before Sat., Feb. 28. United World Federalists Pub-, licity Committee: 2 p.m., Rm. 308, Michigan Union. Cornedbeef Corner, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation: 10:30 to 12 midnight. All students invited. Congregational-Disciples Guild: Film, entitled "Beyond Our Own." 9:15 p.m., Guild House. Coming Events Films pon Geography and Travel: Kellogg Auditorium, 4:15 p.m., Tues., March 2: "TOMORROW'S MEXICO," and "WINGS TO IRE- LAND" (color); auspices of Audio- Visual Education Center. Fencing Instuction is being of- fered in the three weapons, foil, epee, and saber at the IM Bldg. New instruction groups are being formed Mon., and Tues., March 1 and 2, 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. Classes are open to all students. The Ballet Club and Modern Dance Club have openings for dance participation in a program scheduled in May. Anyone wishing to apply, please call 3-1511, ex- tension 391. Graduate Outing Club: Meet for winter sports, 2:30 p.m., Sun., Feb. 29, northwest entrance,.Rack- ham. Bldg. Sign up at Rackham' check desk before noon Saturday. All graduate students welcome. United World Federalists are urged to attend the Leland Stowe lecture Sunday evening, 8 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Subject: An An- alysis of World Government. La Sociedad Hispanica: Group conversational meeting, Mon., March 1, 3 p.m., International Center. Russian Circle: Mon., 8 p.m., International Center. EDITOR'S NOTE: Because The Daily prints every letter to the editor re- ceived (which is signed, 300 words or less in length, and in good taste) we remindourtreaders that theviews expressed in letters are those of the writers only. Letters of more than 300 words are shortened, printed or omitted at the discretion of the edi- torial director. . f* Ticket Beef To the Editor: ANYONE PRESENT in the mob of students who thronged Un- iversity Hall to obtain preferential basketball tickets, Friday, would, I believe, agree with me that the Student Legislature has certainly not found the most efficient way of distributing these tickets. Many students stood in line for two hours only to have Dean Walters stop the distribution before they could get their hands on the two precious ducats which they were allowed. The few hundred stu- dents who received their ticket quota after standing in line for hours have the consolation of at least having the privilege of get- ting into Yost Field House next Monday to see our fine basketball team take on Iowa. The rest of us will have to line up Saturday morning for a few more hours if we want another try at getting these highly valued tickets. To find out who is responsible for this situation, I suggest we look into the activities of the Student Legislature. This suppos- edly representative group of stu- dents has been experimenting with ticket distributing systems for years. (I seem to remember waiting several hours one morn- ing last fall to receive a football season ticket for a seat in the end zone.) You would think by now they could think of a fair and simple system of ticket dis- tribution. An article in Friday's Daily brought out some shady dealings which occurred before the dis- tribution of the preferential bas- ketball tickets for the Ohio State game. The Student Legislature and the Wolverine Club certainly have some "dirty linen" to wash as a result of that venture into administrative work. I wonder if the present mem- bers of the Student Legislature who are shirking their duties in running campus activities and the members who are obtaining graft in the form of tickets for them- selves and their fraternity broth- ers will be reelected to their pres- ent position on the Legislature when the next election is run off. I for one will remember these in- cidences at that time and will vote for honest and capable persons instead of these perpetrators of misgovernment. -James A. Storrie. *~ * * Daily Support To the Editor: ONE GETS JUST a little pained listening to a group of "do- nothings" on this campus whose main form of recreation seems to be writing letters to The Daily or yakking away over a glass of beer about the so-called "political view" and "one-sided emphasis" of this newspaper. This practice rep- resents a peculiar form of frus- tration. Mr. Dilley, in his letter of Feb- ruary 27, joins a group of people who want something but don't quite have the ambition to get it. They sit around planning how to ''purge the Reds from The Daily" (and whatever became of that, anyway?) and they are out to halt the "dissemination of leftist prop- aganda" but they won't work for what they want. They are loud talkers. And they are naive. These boys don't realize that theie are two kinds of people who think "news" is objective-those who pay to have it written and those who write it. Mr. Dilley is satisfied with the private daily newspapers because the news is paid for. He doesn't like The Daily because those with his viewpoint are not writing the "news." You rarely find his friends in the try- out classes with the "Reds" and the "leftists," ready to start the long grind which will place them in a position to give out with the "news" as they see it. Mr. Dilley would rather suppress than work -suppression is the quick and easier way. As to rthe "news" itself, whol makes it on this campus? Not the fraternities and the dance com- mittees. Not the League and the Union. It is those who real- ize the importance and desirabil- ity of participating in the political phase of our society. Who is going to give a party this weekend just isn't very crucial these days, Mr. Dilley. He takes particular exception to The Daily of February 25. Ie ob- jects to the story on the approval of the Young Democrats by the Student Affairs Committee - which awakened the Young Re- publicans to the fact that there is going to be an election this year. He objects to the story of ADA's petition to President Ruth- ven asking for the reinstatement of MYDA on campus-the biggest issue on campus last year and one which is far from dead. Finally, he objects to the report of a lecture. on the third party given by a Uni- versity political science professor -would Mr. Dilley rather have a statement on this issue from the ticket chairman of J-Hop? All in one day, lie cries. That's the way things are, Mr. Dilley. What would he have played up? Since you can't buy a publicly owned newspaper, you have to work on it. University ownership doesn't guarantee objectivity, it just guarantees that those will be heard who sincerely want to be heard. The Daily is one of the finest college newspapers in the country because there are a group of students who work to make it that way. Expressing abviewpoint is work too, Mr. Dilley, but I can't force you to do that. I can only tell him to put up or shut up. -Archie Parsons, Former Daily Sports Editor. * * * Pans Reviewer To the Editor: SINCE COMING to Michigan several years ago, I have read with amazement and pain the music and movie reviews appear- ing in The Daily; amazed that the editors have so consistently been able to substitute one artistic illiterate for another with the greatest facility, and with no in- dication that the supply is run- ning low, and pained by music criticism that watches its com- plete insensitivity to music with an absolute ignorance of the sub- ject. Miss Stern's reviewrof the concert played by the Detroit Symphony is a case in point. How anyone who has the least preten- sion to good taste in music could have described that evening as anything less than an inexcusable imposition upon an audience is " beyond me. It should have been dismissed with a curt note that any rumors that the Detroit Sym- phony is better this year than last are denied categorically. If I have ever heard a worse performance of the Beethoven Eighth, I can't recall it offhand, aId the rest of the concert was so utterly bad that it became a fascinating di- version to try to anticipate each new . . . of melody, of content, of execution perpetrated by both men and conductor. Certainly it is the duty of the critic, especially in The Daily, where he needn't fear offending the delicate sensi- bilities of the board of directdrs of the orchestra, to point out that no so-called major orchestra has the right to perform so poorly so consistently in public, and sug- gest that the orchestra either get itself a new conductor or that the men get themselves jobs in beer gardens or, anywhere else where they can keep their self- respect as musicians and earn an honest living, Don't feel too badly, Miss Stern, that the Bach wasn't played-it was probably the best number on the program. . -Joseph Cochin. Fifty-Eighth Year +t I 4 DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I Letters to the Editor ... ... ' a i !, 10 Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Editorial Staff John Campbell .......Managing Editor Dick Maloy...............City Editor Harriett Friedman .. 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